Evert Pot

I'm a software engineer from The Netherlands, now living in Toronto. I currently work at vlt.sh . I have a passion for Open Source and Web standards, and have been writing about related topics here since 2006.

Popular posts: 15
Total points: 3,324
HN comments: 2,157
Rank: #418 personal

Visit evertpot.com → RSS feedOn Hacker News Jun 2014 – Nov 2022

Web & Frontend 10 Software Engineering 3 Networking & Internet 3 Society, Policy & Culture 2 Life, Learning & Writing 2 Programming Languages 2

Most points Most discussed Most cited Newest

PHP Sucks

2016253 points281 comments Programming Languages details

I think PHP sucks, but not for the obvious reasons. Today I got into a mild discussion on twitter, sparked by the following tweet:

ECMAScript 4: The Missing Version

2020117 points45 commentscited by 4Programming Languages details

In your build tools, you may have noticed that you have an ECMAScript 3 target, and 5 and up, but never a 4. Why is that?